Sending format in Thunderbird

[David Bandel]

On 6/6/07, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida at math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 4:59:49 pm Jorge Almeida wrote:
> >> OK, that must be it. It does violate the Principle of Least Surprise. It
> >> doesn't induce amiable feelings towards intelligent software...Ah, well...
> >>
> >
> > That behavior is, IMO, better than ecoding plain text as HTML as Outlook does.
> > Why encode plain text? I think it's a great feature.
> >
> Don't know a thing about Outlook... What I meant is that if the user
> asks for html the application shouldn't decide whether the user made a
> right choice. OTOH, the application might not offer that feature at all,
> that would be a different matter. It certainly wouldn't bother me if
> html were to disappear from email altogether.
>

HTML can and should disappear from email.  Just install mimedefang on
all your mail servers and have it rip out html and images.  I often
get blank messages. :-).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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